[lolive]

Be careful, engineers, when interacting with soft skill experts not to join their reality distortion field where it’s all about coordination, alignment, bizness strategy, clever planning. Whereas the real stuffs are just implémentation details, quickly solved.

In the end, they might convince you that 2+2=5.

[jampekka]

This is actually a soft skill deficiency of not being able to appreciate importance of other people's fields of expertise. Not unlike a hard skill expert's failure to appreciate the importance of soft skills.

People with truly good soft skills are a pleasure to work with even if your soft skills are not that great.

[ambicapter]

The trouble isn't that they would convince me with their reality distortion (they don't), the issue is that they are satisfied with their "progress" while I'm still asking crucial questions (which they ignore, b/c they don't see the importance).

[kube-system]

Part of the soft skills that are useful for a developer is being able to frame your crucial questions in a way that makes their importance relevant to their world.

[lolive]

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[sandeepkd]

Its never about the soft skill experts being able to convince the engineers, the challenge if any, is always about them being able to convince the "leadership"

[CrulesAll]

Wait until you try to explain basic concepts to such people! What's annoying is HR employing more of these people and not understanding why the dial does not move. What is baffling and infuriating is when such people are put in management. MBAs will destroy Western business eventually(those who tag an MBA onto a STEM qualification are not as bad but still infected.)